Gwangyang Steelworks Delivers 4,000 Kimchi Cabbages to Local Community

36 Welfare Facilities, 400 Households, 4,000 Heads

27,000 Heads Donated Over 10 Years

POSCO Gwangyang Steelworks (Director Lee Jin-su) held a ‘Love Kimchi Sharing Event’ in front of the welfare center’s large cafeteria at Gwangyang Steelworks on the 20th, delivering warm emotions to local neighbors.

The delivery ceremony was attended by Jeong In-hwa, Mayor of Gwangyang, Lee Cheol-ho, Deputy Director of Gwangyang Steelworks, Yoon Ji-young, President of Gwangyang YWCA, heads of social welfare facilities, and other event officials.

Gwangyang Steelworks held a 'Love Kimchi Sharing Event' for local neighbors and delivered 4,000 portions of kimchi to the community.
Photo by Gwangyang Steelworks

Every winter, Gwangyang Steelworks holds the ‘Love Kimchi Sharing Event’ to deliver kimchi, a precious food for us, to local neighbors in need such as social welfare facilities, homebound elderly, disabled persons, and single-parent families.

Marking its 10th year since starting in 2014, this year’s kimchi sharing event saw Gwangyang Steelworks gift 4,000 heads of carefully made kimchi (900 containers) to 36 local facilities and about 400 households.

In particular, the kimchi delivered to organizations operating free meal services, including 10 facilities for the disabled, 14 elderly facilities, and 8 child and youth facilities, will serve as a hearty side dish for neighbors visiting the facilities.

Through this event, the total amount of kimchi delivered by Gwangyang Steelworks to the local community over the past 10 years has reached approximately 27,000 heads.

Lee Cheol-ho, Deputy Director of Gwangyang Steelworks, said, “Kimchi is an essential and precious food on the Korean dining table, so I hope this event conveys the warm love and affection of Gwangyang Steelworks employees to our neighbors,” adding, “Gwangyang Steelworks will continue various corporate citizenship activities together with local neighbors.”

A welfare facility official said, “Among welfare facility staff, there is even a saying ‘POSCO Kimchi,’ as it provides great support every winter,” and expressed gratitude, saying, “We thank Gwangyang Steelworks for always practicing the spirit of sharing for neighbors.”

Meanwhile, Gwangyang Steelworks is striving to realize a company that works with the local community by presenting a model where business and society develop together, such as installing simple sprinklers in the homes of fire-vulnerable elderly and delivering 1,493 bags of 20kg white rice (worth 80 million KRW) to local welfare facilities for Chuseok.

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